A Larger Memory A History of Our Diversity, with Voices

by Takaki, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780316831697
• ISBN10: 0316831697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-23
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

Modern Historiographyis the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era. In a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys on the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment; Romanticism; the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought; the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World; theAnnalesschool in France; and the effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and the Post-War 'moods.'Modern Historiographyprovides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

Table of Contents

Prologue The "Varied Carols" of America: A Democratic History	3	(6)
Part One: A Larger Memory The Ties That Bind	9	(22)
Roots: A Multicultural Memory	9	(5)
"The Vast, Surging, Hopeful Army of Workers"	14	(5)
A Nation That Did "Not Perish from the Earth": A Legacy of Black Men in Blue	19	(8)
Breaking Silences: Brushing Against the Grain	27	(4)
Part Two: A City upon a Hill	31	(16)
Introduction	31	(7)
A Horror Remembered: Olaudah Equiano's Passage to America	38	(9)
Part Three: A Manifest Destiny	47	(108)
Introduction	47	(9)
The Significance of the Frontier in American History: An Indian Perspective	56	(23)
The Coming of the Wasichus: Black Elk's Boyhood Memories	61	(8)
The End of the Frontier for a Winnebago	69	(10)
From Sunup to Sundown: Laboring in the Cotton Fields	79	(33)
"Don't Give a Nigger an Inch": Frederick Douglass Learns to Read	84	(5)
"The Best Mistress and Master in the World": Millie Evans	89	(7)
"Git This Nigger to the Cotton Patch": Jenny Proctor's Complaint	96	(6)
After Slavery: A Personal Account of the New Bondage	102	(10)
Fleeing English Tyranny: The Irish Cross the Atlantic	112	(17)
Finding Her Voice for Militant Labor: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	117	(12)
Strangers from a Different Shore: The Chinese	129	(26)
"How Can I Call This My Home?": Lee Chew	133	(6)
"Like Country Pretty Much": Kee Low	139	(6)
"A Chance to Take Care of Myself": A Chinese-American Daughter	145	(10)
Part Four: A Multicultural Destiny	155	(190)
Introduction	155	(6)
Beyond the Pale: Jewish Immigrants in a Promised Land	161	(27)
A Sweatshop Girl: Sadie Frowne	165	(9)
Dear Editor: Letters from Jewish America -- Problems and Advice	174	(14)
Betrayed by Their Country: The World War II Internment of Japanese Americans	188	(23)
A Birthright Denied: Monica Sone	190	(12)
A Birthright Renounced: Joseph Kurihara	202	(9)
Fighting on the "Frontier" of the Pacific War: Native Americans	211	(11)
The Indian Hero of Iwo Jima: Letters from Ira Hayes	214	(8)
Transplanted in Chicago: The Polish	222	(17)
Bilingual Education in Polonia	223	(8)
A Stepchild of America: Thomas Napierkowski	231	(8)
El Norte: Up from Mexico	239	(31)
Searching for a Door to America: Jesus Garza	242	(6)
A Song of El Norte: Camelia Palafox	248	(14)
Twice a Minority: Maria Jimenez Joins the Army	262	(8)
Beyond Ellis Island: The Italians	270	(11)
Growing Up Between Two Worlds: Joanna Dorio	272	(9)
India in the West: New Passages	281	(11)
Reinventing Herself in America: Shanti	282	(10)
Puerto Ricans: The Island Is in the Heart	292	(10)
Growing Up Puerto Rican in New York: Maria Diaz	293	(9)
The 1992 Los Angeles Riot: Korean-American Dreams in Flames	302	(15)
"Not Going to Let the Riots Beat Me": Sun Soon Kim	305	(12)
Blacks in the Cities: No Time to Wait	317	(28)
The "Disappearance" of Work: Hard Times for Jimmy Morse	321	(6)
A Chance to Act Affirmatively: Bryan K. Fair	327	(18)
Epilogue Creating a Community of a Larger Memory	345	(10)
Notes	355	(12)
Sources	367	(4)
An Additional Memory: Acknowledgments	371